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The Costs of Agglomeration: Land Prices in French Cities

Combes, Pierre-Philippe; Duranton, Gilles; Gobillon, Laurent - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

We develop a new methodology to estimate the elasticity of urban costs with respect to city population using French land price data. Our preferred estimate, which handles a number of estimation concerns, stands at 0.041. Our approach also yields a number of intermediate outputs of independent...

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Unaffordable Housing and Local Employment Growth: Evidence from California Municipalities

Chakrabarti, Ritashree; Zhang, Junfu - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

It is widely believed that unaffordable housing could drive businesses away and thus impede job growth. However, there is little evidence to support this view. This paper presents a simple model to clarify how housing affordability is linked to employment growth and why unaffordable housing...

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Wages, Rents and Heterogeneous Moving Costs

Krupka, Douglas James; Donaldson, Kwame - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

newer literature on agglomeration economies. …

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Optimal Spatial Taxation: Are Big Cities Too Small?

Eeckhout, Jan; Guner, Nezih - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

We analyze the role of optimal income taxation across different local labor markets. Should labor in large cities be taxed differently than in small cities? We find that a planner who needs to raise revenue and is constrained by free mobility of labor across cities does not choose equal taxes...

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Welfare Benefits of Agglomeration and Worker Heterogeneity

Teulings, Coen; Ossokina, Ioulia V.; Groot, Henri L.F. de - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

effects on home and job location, on land use, and on agglomeration benefits are hard to pin down. We develop a spatial …

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The Productivity Advantages of Large Cities: Distinguishing Agglomeration from Firm Selection

Combes, Pierre-Philippe; Duranton, Gilles; Gobillon, Laurent - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

cities toughen competition, allowing only the most productive to survive) and agglomeration economies (larger cities promote … a generalised version of a tractable firm selection model and a standard model of agglomeration. Stronger selection in … larger cities left-truncates the productivity distribution whereas stronger agglomeration right-shifts and dilates the …

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Towards a Unifying Approach of the 'New Economic Geography'

Pflüger, Michael; Südekum, Jens - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

Models of the new economic geography share a number of common conclusions, but also exhibit notable differences, in particular with respect to the shape of the location pattern and the efficiency of the market equilibrium. This reflects the fact that these models rely heavily on specific...

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Economic Integration, Wage Policies and Social Policies

Pflüger, Michael - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003

historically emerged as the core. The agglomeration rent which accrues to the mobile factor gives unions and governments in the …

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On Pitchforks and Tomahawks

Pflüger, Michael; Südekum, Jens - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

The core-periphery model by Krugman (1991) has two 'dramatic' implications: catastrophic agglomeration and locational … and easily reversible transition from symmetry to agglomeration. …

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Agglomeration and Tax Competition

Borck, Rainald; Pflüger, Michael - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

competition models. The agglomeration rent which accrues to the mobile factor in the core region can be taxed. Moreover, a tax … addition to core-periphery equilibria, exhibits stable equilibria with partial agglomeration. We show that a tax differential … may arise as an equilibrium of the tax game even when there is only partial agglomeration and the mobile factor does not …

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